The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HENRY WARD BEEcHER's STATUE is to be-
placed in park not far from Plymouth church,
IN Brooklyn.
THE pay of bulLfghter is good Frascuelo
gets $4,000 for killing his Spanish bulls in tn e
Colon arena this winter.
THE first advertisements known of in England
were in the shape of small bills affixed to the
doors of st. Paul's Church.
The first Italian lady who sung in public in
| England was Francesca Marguerite de lEpine,
| who appeared in various operas in 1853.
CARRIAGES were first introduced into Eng
| land in 1880 and were for long time used
only for the conveyance of the sick and of
| ladies.
TWELVE HUNDRED BIRDS of different kinds
dashed themselves against the light of Cape
Ray lighthouse near st. John, N F., Sept. Il,
| and were killed.
| A CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER has suspended, and
| its owner gives a reason that the real estate
| boom has robbed him of his entire staff in
GLIDING the Office boy
SUNSET Cox says the utter idlcness in which
the ladies of the Turkish harem are pictured as
passing their lives has ceased, and habits of in
dlIstrY have invaded the harem
AFTER the poultry house of Willis Perryman,
| near Boune Terre, No had been nearly depop-
| ulated, he tried rat poison and found the next
day in his hennery dead bull snake of enor-
nous size.
THE first striking clock was imported into
Europe by the Persans ebout the year A. D.
| 500. 1t was brought as present to Charemagne
from Abdella. King of Persia, by two monks of
Jerusalem.
The centennial of the actual establishment of
our national government in New York occurs in
April, 1889. It will soon be in order for New
York to call upon the country for subscriptions
to celebrate it.
VIENNA has granted to the neice of Mozart,
who is pennilesS, the prncely pension of 81 rs a
menth: Evidently the country thinks great
deal of her, and is afraid she will emigrate if
she gets bigger allowance.
WHEN lightning struck Baxter Vaughan, of
SIrother No., it cut hole like a bullet hole in
his hat, ran around the RIM then down his back
clear 10 his heels tearing off in its entire
narrow strip of skin. and yet Mr.. Vaughan
lives to tell his strange experience
Two MEN were captured at Albuquerque, N.
M, recently, who were travelling over the coun-
| try with two-horse wagon, carrying COM
plete counterteltlng outfit, and sowing spurious
gold and silver coins wherever they went The
counterfeit $40 gold pieces bear the date of
| 1860
AN APPLE TREE on the farm of Capt. T. J.
Williamson, in Peasants county, Va, which has
! borne fruit for a number of years, has never
| been known to blossom. This year the tree is
| again full of fine large apples, the strangest
| thing about which is that the fruit has neither
core nor seed.
WRITING recently from the Oratory, Birmng-
| ham, to the editor of the CGntbridr, Swansea
| Cardinal Newman said of his famous hymn,
| Lead Kindly Light, that it consists of three,
| not four StanZas; and that the fourth stanza is
not authentic, but an unwarranted addendum
| by another pen.
| THERE lives in Troy, Mo-, a little girl about
| years oldwhose head is almost an iron gray,
and it is steadily and perceptibly growing
grayer, and the present indications are that long
before she reaches womanhood her once raven
| black hair will have become snow white. Fright
caused the change in color.
A TALL eight-day clock, formerly belonging to
| Commodore Vanderbilt's grandmother, is now
owned by Mr.. Cross. of Waverly, R. l. Old
Mrs. Vanderbilt used it as a savings bank and
| took from It 500 to start young Cornelius in
business. That money was the foundation of
| the Vanderbilt millions. Mr. Cross married a
daughter Of the Commodore, and the old clock
was share of the homestead furniture.
UNCLE PETER SARCHETT aged 81 years, of
Brazil, Ind, was much surprised day or two
| ago to find his sight fully restored to what it
was in his prime. In the inf1rmties of age he
had lost 1t TO such an extent as TO I've unable to
| read unless the tyne was large and distinct but
on the. day referred to he found himself able to
| read from the smallest type with ease. He is
| physically fine example of temperate life and
| happy age.
| DR.. JOHN VANsANT of the United States
Marine Hospital at st. Louis claims to be the
| first to have taken photographs by the light of
| flrefiies. He placed twelve firehies in three
ounce bottle, covering its mouth with fine white
| bobinet. The average duration of the flash of
| each insect was half a second and the lumin-
| GUS area on the abdomen was about one-eighth
| of an inch square. The time of exposure was
| fifty flashes.
! In some parts of California the Indians gather
a certain poisonous plant in great quantities and
! throw it into a pool o. brook where they know
| there are trout. Then they whip the water with
| branches until the jnice of the plant eXudes
| The result is that large numbers of trout be-
| come stupefed and come to the surface, where
| they are easily captured. Such proceeding as
| that is calculated to make the hair of the en-
| thusiastic angler stand on end
THE centennial of Huntingdon county, Penn.
| sylvania, was celebrated on Sept. 20; the
| borough of York will honor the Tooth year of
| its Incorporation on the sd and 9th, and SuS-
| Quehanna county will in October celebrate the
| centennial anniversary of the first white settler
| in the territory of that County. York became
| a borough three days before Huntingdon COUNTY
| was organized aud York had the honor of being
| the capital of the nation from f777 to 1878
| In Kentucky, a few days since, young woman
died, and when her father sought to secure bur
al for her no undertaken in the county would
! give his services, although payment was ten
| dered in advance. The reason of the refusal
was tnaU tne husband OF the dead woman, who
| had been married but three months had not
paid debt of Si3 incurred in the burial of pre-
| vious wife, and the Undertakers' Protective AS
ISOLATION said that the bill must be paid before
| any OF its members would take charge of the
remains.
| DIR. HoLUB, the African explorer, after being
| plundered by savage tribes, has arrived in Eng
land with his collection This collecton-a
wreck only of what was gathered by the indus
trious exploreI'-flls AZ cases In t there are
COZ skins of quadrupeds ready for sGu1ing of
which 20 are of animals as large as the koodoo-
an antelope heavier than the red deer; of birds
there are 2.22l specimens, of insects 27 900 in
Gliding 1000 beetles and 5000 moths and bu.-
| tertiies. There are are also $500 specimens of
plants. There are 1000 recorded observations
in meteorology, and more than that number of
the measurements Of elevations.
A New YORK photographer prints a circular
containing the following advice: when lady
sitting for picture would compose her mouth
to serene character, she should, just before en-
tering the room, say Bosom and keep the ex-
preston into which the mouth subsidies If, on
the other hand she wishes TO assume distin-
guished and somewhat noble bearing she should
say, Brush, the result of which is infallible
If she wishes TO make her mouth look small.
she must say Flip but il the mouth be already
too small and needs enlarging. size must say
Cabbage If she wishes to look mournful she
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